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with tan and pots plunged in it when brought in, 

 in October, there to remain through the winter ; 

 they will want very little water, and no heat but 

 what may come from the other rooms. I have 

 known Camellias treated this way very successfully, 

 producing an abundance of flowers during the 

 winter, and supplying the parlor windows with 

 flowering plants. 



In selecting a list of plants for the window, I will 

 first name 9. few which nearly all can grow with a 

 little attention, — Acacias, Armata linearis, and 

 pubescens; Aloe variegata and oblique; Alonsia 

 grandiflora ; Azaleas, nearly all the varieties : Cac- 

 tus ; Epiphyllum truncatum, violacea, speciosa, 

 and Ackermania ; Cereus speciosissima and flageli- 

 formis. Begonia Rex, and others of that class, with 

 variegated foliage ; Calla JEthiopica ; Geraniums, 

 Rose and Nutmeg, and all the zonale class, now so 

 popular and varied in their colors ; Hydrangea hor- 

 tensis; Primula sinensis, red and white; Mignonette; 

 Myrtle, communis, latifolia and variegata ; Ne- 

 rium ; Oleander, White and Double Pink. 



For baskets — Ferns; Ficus reptens ; Kenilworth, 

 Boston, Irish and English Ivys ; Ferns, and most 

 of the varieties of Lysimachia nummilaria; Lyco- 

 podiums dentatum and ceesium ; Saxifraga sar- 

 mentosa; Sedum variegata, Sieboldii, and stol- 

 onifoxa tradescantia, discolor, and Zebrina ; Vinca 

 elegantissima, and major ; all the above are easy 

 of cultivation, and beginners should select from 

 this class first. 



The following are very pretty and suitable for the 

 window ; but they require a little more knowledge 

 and experience in their cultivation : — 



Ardisia crenulata ; Allamanda cathartica and 

 Nerifolia ; Bouvardia leiantha, centradenia rosea, 

 and grandiflora; Calceolorias Bugosa, Dan O'Con- 

 nel and meteor ; Camellias Alba Plena, Candidis- 

 sima, Sarah Frost, Henri Le Favre, Mrs. Cope, 

 Alcxina, Sacco, Lady Humes' Blush, Miniata and 

 Dunlap's Imbricata — more might be added, but 

 these are the best. Monthly Cam itions ; Diffen- 

 bachia picta ; Dracoena foerra and Brazeliensis 

 Cinerarias ; Daphne odora and rubra ; Fuchsias 

 nearly all the varieties ; Heliotrope ; Catalonian 

 Jasmine ; Lantanas Metrosideros, Floribunda, Eu- 

 phorbia Jacquina;flora ; Poinsettia pulcherrima ; 

 Justicia carnea and speciosa ; Plumbago capensis ; 

 Bussellia juncea ; Vincas alba and rosea. 



Additional for baskets, — Achimines picta, gran- 

 diflora and patens ; Cissus discolor ; Manettia, coc- 

 cinea, Torrenia, Asiatica. I might add many others 

 to this list, but those selected are the best. 



GREENHOUSE STRUCTURES-ONCE MORE 



BY PETER HENDERSON, SOUTH BERGEN N. J. 



I did hope that Mr. Buist's reply to me on this 

 question would have been such as would not further 

 liave necessitated a response; but as he defiantly.chal- 

 lenges me to verify my statement that there were 

 already half a dozen establishments built on the 

 ridge and furrow style that rivalled his, I have 

 no alternative left but to state where these are, or 

 lay under his imputation that what I stated was 

 not correct. Parsons & Co., and John Henderson 

 & Co., of Flushing, L. I., W. Wilson, of Astoria L. 

 ~ nett & Davidson, of Flatbush. L. I., Hovey 



^ uo., ( 

 I., Ben 



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& Co., of Boston, Mass., and his humble servant 

 at South Bergen, N. eT., have their greenhouses 

 either entirely or in part on this plan. The three 

 first named have at least twice the extent of glass 

 that Mr. Buist ha^i and none of the others less, and 

 it is believed (but this is only "an assertion"), that 

 at some of these places mv.re Roses can now be seen 

 than ''Rosedale" has ever produced in a dozen 

 years ; in others more Camellias, as one item, than 

 would fill all Mr. Buist's big tables to over-flowing, 

 — yet Roses and Camellias are specialties at Rose- 

 dale. Still these estabHshments are represented by 

 such as have been ' trying ' with the ridge and fur- 

 row system of greenhouses, in which our Horticul- 

 tural savant can see no merit. We did not press 

 the advantages of "our plan" on Mm specially, 

 we merely gave him a chance with the others to cut 

 loose from the leading strings of his Edmonston 

 preceptor, but how ill-requited our well meant in- 

 tentions were evident from the tenor of his replj^ 



Had Mr. Buist used the space he occupied in 

 your columns in giving his reasons against the sys- 

 tem, instead of inveighing against me for presuming 

 to give my opinion of it, some benefit might have 

 been conferred on your young or inexperienced rea- 

 der, but instead of doing so, in his characteristic 

 style, he contrives to leave the impression that I 

 had laid claim to being its discoverer, while in the 

 very i^art of the article to which he alludes I state 

 as plainly as words can make it, that to F. L. Perry, 

 of Canandiagua, N. Y., I was indebted for the in- 

 formation that lead to the trial of the valuable im- 

 provement, of which my article attempted to give 

 a description. Again, when I corner him about 

 his saying that I had copied the plan from Mr. Bis- 

 set and given out as my own, he has the insane 

 audacity to say, in the August No. that he did not 

 say so, while his words stand recorded in the printed 

 pages of the May number. And yet he glibly prates 

 of candor and fairness as if he was the embodiment 

 of these qualities. 



If there .is any benefit to be derived from this 

 controversy it is not to settle the question whether 

 the ridge and furrow system of greenhouse building 

 is new or old. The vital question for your readers 

 to know is whether or not it is one worthy of adop- 

 tion. Without giving further reasons why we be- 

 hove so in detail. 



We think the broad fact that in the above named 

 six establishments upwards of one hundred thou- 

 sand dollars has been expendedin the past four years 

 in buildings of this style only, is argument enough. 

 The proprietors are all nurserymen or florists of ma- 

 ture experience, but who have had sagacity sujQ&- 

 cient not to allow their prejudices to blind their 

 eyes to their interests. 



Mr. Buist sums up by saying that visitors at 

 South Bergen and Rosedale will be able to judge 

 whether he or I have "cobbled" to the greatest 

 purpose. I most cheerfully accept the ordeal, and 

 although his has been under way at Rosedale for 

 nearly a quarter of century, while mine at Bergen 

 has not yet been four years, yet I have some satisfac- 

 tion in believing that for every foot of glass that has 

 been put up after the style at Rosedale, ten has 

 been put up after "our plan." If I am correct in 

 this, it emphatically decides the question. 



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